From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: It's a Bug? Please.
Date: 24 Apr 1997 15:27:16 GMT
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Miguel Murillo (mmurillo AT ideafix DOT cps DOT unizar DOT es) wrote:

: Error :
...
:         (a++)++;

AFIAK you can only increment or decrement lvalues; `(a++)' is not an
lvalue. 

: Fine :

:         (a++);
:         (a++);

Here `a' is an lvalue, so it is incremented twice.

If you want to write it in one line, try:

	 a+=2;

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford